New staff member: Kerry Miller TAGS: Library | New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

Postgraduate Arts journal launches on hosting service TAGS: Forum | Library Learning Services | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems FORUM, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts officially launched on Friday 6th December 2013 to coincide with the publication of their seventeenth issue, Rites & Rituals. …Continue reading →

LibQual iPad mini winners Congratulations to Robin Cathcart and Christina Mackie who won the two iPad minis we offered as prizes for completing the recent LibQual+ survey. Receiving her iPad mini, Robin thanked the …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of Research Data Curation Systems TAGS: Library | Research Data The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data Management.  This …Continue reading →

Ivanhoe in Belgium TAGS: Corson Collection | Sir Walter Scott Last weekend I was in Leuven at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), where I’d been invited to give a paper on translations …Continue reading →

Darwin cataloguing project completed Today we have finished the cataloguing of our Darwin collection.  Almost last to be done was one of the nicest finds – offprints of two of Darwin’s early articles, on …Continue reading →

Oatmeal and peppermint In March 2014 our main exhibition will feature items purchased for the collections with the help of the Friends of Edinburgh University Library.  Our intern has been looking at possible exhibits …Continue reading →

Reading Rooms and visiting the Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Library Annexe We run a fast and effective retrieval service for Annexe materials. If you want to consult the whole item we can have it sent to a convenient library location via …Continue reading →

Complete the Library survey TAGS: feedback | LibQUAL | Library | survey If you have been randomly selected to participate in the survey, you will have now received two emails containing a link to the survey. Please take 15 minutes to complete  …Continue reading →

Happy Halloween/Samhuinn from the Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Library Annexe The results of our now annual Annexe pumpkin carving competition.   Ohh spooky. Stephanie Farley (Charlie), Library Annexe Assistant